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That’ll keep him from even thinking of doing something like that again! /s

Psst. The Epstein Files are the distraction…

i thought the iran war was distraction from the epstein files. i'm losing all track of all these distractions.

Before people comment on this, I'd like to point out the regime killed 12,000 people in a span of 2 days. They've been brutally murdering them for decades. Distraction or not.

Us non pod-people caught his drift.

What's a pod-people?

And people will speed, steal, kill, cheat - what of it? If you negligently run over someone in your self driving car you’re the one going to jail.

It isn't a narrative, it is simply a point of view. Are we happy there aren't more women pilots? That would be your POV.

I don't care how many women pilots there are. Nor should anyone. What's important is that women have the opportunity to become pilots if they so choose, not how many women actually make that choice.

The narrative is "it is important that genders are equally represented in all professions". The "sadly" indicates that - it assumes that equality of representation is good and expected, so the fact that it was found to not be the case is "sad".

> Are we happy there aren't more women pilots?

I'm sorry, what? Who's we? You and... ?

> That would be your POV

If you want to know my POV all you have to do is ask.


The schedules have negligible difference with respect to your original argument. So if busy schedules are why there are hardly any women pilots, why is the gender balance the exact opposite for flight attendants? There are reasons, and they aren't all because "men bad", but your initial argument is 100% not true based on the simple counterexample of flight attendants. What is being "papered over" is this: why, given the same schedules, are women under-represented in the higher paying, higher prestige job?

> why, given the same schedules, are women under-represented in the higher paying, higher prestige job?

Why do you believe they have the same schedules? There's no rule that says when a pilot follows one flight with another flight, all the flight attendants have to join him.

I don't think there's all that much inherent value in having several flights flown by the same pilot -- if anything, it's the reverse -- so I'd tend to suspect that the rarity of female pilots owes more to the fact that pilots come from the Air Force.


Why bipedal?

Because the human world is built for bipedal beings and everything else will encounter obstacles somewhere.

Dogs and cats don't complain. Gorillas and chimpanzee should be fine too.

Bipedal robots suck right now, but superhuman stability is achievable in near future.


Yeah, I think 4+ legged bots should be more common than 2 leg variants. 2 legs is neat, but takes far more work and processing to control and balanced. It also requires much more powerful legs, a spider bot has more legs which makes it more "complex" in some ways, but individual legs don't need to hold and maneuver its entire body weight alone and it can hold 3 points of ground contact at all times, even when moving around, making it exceptionally stable. A bipedal robot has to be able to hold like twice its own body weight or more in order to balance and maneuver on a single foot in order to walk around and navigate obstacles.

> My direction always been to fill it with as wide array of information as possible, the more different from existing information the better.

Clearly.


Wanna expand? I don't understand what you mean, but I want to.

The hot debate in my house: is it yellow or green. Is there a test for that?

Used to be red/orange in mine.

If I forged a Picasso and convinced someone to buy it, did I do anything wrong?

What's that got to do with llms?

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